From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #124 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Sunday, May 3 1998 Volume 02 : Number 124 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 May 98 02:22:12 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Klinton Hands Over Internet to Int'l Group (fwd) Check it out gang, this could affect our commo negatively..... On Apr 30, Ed Wolfe wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] (Rec'v from Ralph@teaminfinity.com) WHITE HOUSE PLANS TO TURN OVER MANAGEMENT OF INTERNET TO INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT GROUP... AP April 29, 1998 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration's final plan to turn over management of the Internet to an international non-profit group will likely be released within the next two weeks, the White House official in charge of the project said Wednesday. The plan will radically change how the burgeoning Internet is organized and effectively end the U.S. government's role as a data traffic cop. At best, the changes would be virtually transparent to users. At worst, they could result in chaos and raise serious questions about the stability of the Internet, which has become a vital conduit for information and commerce. Ira Magaziner, the White House senior policy adviser responsible for the changeover, told an Internet conference in New York on Wednesday he expects the final proposal to be finished within two weeks. But he's also told industry insiders recently the paper may be completed as early as next week. A deadline looms. The government's contract with Network Solutions Inc., the Herndon, Va.-based company that currently assigns addresses on the World Wide Web, expired March 31 and was extended six months, until the end of September. But there are no provisions for another contract extension. "At that point, things have got to be clear, up and functioning, or it could be a little questionable about what happens," said Don Heath, president of the Internet Society, who met with Magaziner earlier this week. Heath said he expects the administration will immediately suggest three new Web address suffixes, called domains. Current domains include .com, .net and .org. The administration hasn't described what new domains it might suggest, but proposals have included .firm, .web, .arts., .nom, .rec, .info and .store. The now suffixes would greatly expand the Web's current 1.6 million estimated addresses. Critics contend that the landslide of possible new site names could make it even more difficult to find information on the Internet and create headaches for companies trying to protect their trademarks. But Supporters argue that the new domains could help organize the Web, which can be chaotic for newcomers. The administration released a draft of its plan in January, then asked for public comment before rewriting it. More than 430 people and organizations responded. Heath said the administration has heeded criticisms from overseas that, even under the new plan, the Internet would still be too U.S.-centric, largely because the yet-to-be-formed international non-profit group would be based in the United States. "A lot of the decisions for the future will come out of this," Heath said. "That's appropriate for the new Internet. It puts it out the hands of the U.S. government and in the hands of the Internet's self-governing mechanism." "I anticipate (Magaziner) has heard the international community loud and clear," he added. In reviewing the public comments, the administration noted the "principle of globalism received strong support" and said many people wrote that "the Internet has grown from its U.S. roots into a global medium." Earlier this year, Network Solutions announced that Internet address registrations outside the United States represented about one-fourth of website name requests. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 98 02:23:02 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: FCC Public File Auto-FAQ This "FAQ" is auto-posted once a month via cron triggered script, and may be triggered off by hand from time to time in between if the info is requested by someone, such as when the House recently voted down the AW Ban and the Media threw a hissy fit. The purpose of this FAQ is to inform people what they can do about Media generated lies and misinformation. While the FCC only handles Broadcast Media, (TV and Radio), some of these techniques will work for magazines and newspapers too. If I've missed something, or you find errors, let me know and I'll add/fix it. 1.a. Send letters of complaint to the Station Manager every time it happens with all the time, details, other info, and your complaint(s). 1.b. Send an additional copy for their FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Public file. 1.c. Send an additional copy to the FCC itself, in case they don't put it in their Public file. 2.a. Send a letter of complaint to their Station Owner as per above, with copies as per above (1.b and 1.c). 3. Send copies of their replies to you along with yours to them to their FCC Public file, so that it gets nice and fat, again, with copies to the FCC itself. 4. If you can afford it, send all corespondence by Certified Mail with Return Receipt Requested. Send a copy of the Return Receipt with everything that goes to the FCC itself, so that they will have additional evidence if the Station is cheating on their Public File. 5.a. Go to the Public Library and look up "Standard Rate and Data Services" (SRDS) "Directory of National Advertisers." It is found in many major Libraries (in the business/reference stacks), and lists EVERY current advertiser, who the players are at both the company and advertising agency(s), and the appropriate telephone and fax (and probably E-Mail by now) addresses. If your Library doesn't have it, it can be requested. Otherwise you can watch their commercials for a few days to a week, listing all their advertisers. There are other references that have the addresses for the nation's business headquarters too. look them all up and pass the addresses and phone/FAX numbers etc., around so that everyone can bitch to the sponsors. IF enough people do that, it'll get back to the Station. Tell them if the Station continues their nastiness you'll _consider_ changing to brand(X), (otherwise they'll just write you off as a loss). 5.b. The above, (5.a.), can be a lot easier and less time consuming if you're dealing with a newspaper's or a magazine's ads, as they are right in front of you for the listing. 6. If they put on something good or even just more reasonable, call and compliment them on it, but do _not_ send any kudos to their FCC file, or write to them about it. That way they have to keep it up and hope, as there is nothing good in the file or in writing that they can show the FCC to justify their Station's License. 7. Federal Communications Commission, Complaints and Compliance Division Room 6218, 2025 M Street NW Washington, D.C. 20554 FAX: 202-653-9659 FCC Attn: Edythe Wise - -- An _EFFECTIVE_ | The _only_important_difference_ between Nazi-ism, Fascism, weapon in every | Communism, Communitarianism, Socialism and (Neo-)Liberalism hand = Freedom | is the _spelling_, and that the last group hasn't got the on every side! | Collective brains to figure it out. -- Bill Vance - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:55:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: IP: Court Rejects TX Separatist Group's Theories (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 06:14:22 -0500 From: believer@telepath.com To: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: Court Rejects TX Separatist Group's Theories - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only.=20 - ----------------------- Source: Washington Post Lone Star State Stays Put Court Rejects Separatist Group's Theories By Bill Miller Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 1, 1998; Page A02=20 This just in: Texas is part of the United States. A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that Texas became the nation's 28th state in 1845 and remains so to this day. He rejected arguments raised in a lawsuit filed by leaders of a Texas separatist group.= =20 Judge Paul L. Friedman's eight-page decision came in a case filed by Richard and Evelyn McLaren, leaders of the so-called Republic of Texas. The McLarens and their supporters contend that Texas was illegally annexed. The couple gained national attention a year ago when they and their followers staged a week-long standoff against 300 law enforcement officers at their compound in the remote Davis Mountains of western Texas. Richard McLaren claimed he was the "ambassador and consul general" of the Republic of Texas. He is serving a 99-year prison term for holding two people hostage during the incident. Just before the standoff ended, McLaren and Texas Ranger Capt. Barry Caver signed a pact labeled "International Agreement and Terms of Cease-Fire." The agreement included a provision stating that the Republic of Texas intended to file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington seeking its independence. The McLarens named a host of defendants, including President Clinton, Vice President Gore and other federal and state officials. The United States, Mexico and the United Nations also were named in the complaint. Friedman's opinion was filled with citations of law and history. He noted that Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, attended a ceremony marking the end of independence and the beginning of statehood.=20 "The history of how Texas became a state is admittedly tortuous," Friedman wrote. "Indeed, Texas' statehood tale is plagued with political stalling, confusion and delay from 1836, the year in which the Republic of Texas won its independence from Mexico, to 1845, the year in which Texas finally became one of the United States of America. The tale is even more complicated by the fact that Texas attempted to secede from the United States before the Civil War. On December 29, 1845, however, Texas did in fact become the 28th state." Friedman said that any question about the statehood issue was laid to rest by a U.S. Supreme Court opinion issued in 1868. "It is the precedent by which this Court and all courts of the United States are bound," he wrote.= =20 "The Republic of Texas no longer exists." The battle over independence is not the only struggle the McLarens are waging in the courts. They were convicted last month of federal fraud in Texas for using worthless "Republic of Texas" checks to obtain roughly $3.4 million in goods, including a lease on a Learjet and other luxuries. = =20 =A9 Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:53:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: IP: More Money for Covert Ops (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 06:09:28 -0500 From: believer@telepath.com To: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: More Money for Covert Ops - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only.=20 - ----------------------- Source: Washington Post Panel Boosts Funding For Covert Operations By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 1, 1998; Page A12=20 The House intelligence committee has increased "marginally" the roughly $27 billion President Clinton has proposed to spend next year on the nation's intelligence agencies, allocating additional funds to modernize interception of worldwide telecommunications and revitalize the CIA's clandestine spy service, according to a statement the panel released. One of the beneficiaries of new spending would be the National Security Agency (NSA), which has relied chiefly on space-based satellites or ground-based antennas for its eavesdropping, one source said yesterday. Based at Fort Meade, Md., NSA now "needs new computers and new tools to get into the new data streams that are crisscrossing the world," this intelligence expert said. Some of the funds for new NSA equipment are to come from reductions in spending next fiscal year by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the multibillion-dollar organization that builds and manages the intelligence satellite program, sources said. Clandestine human intelligence programs run by the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) were another priority identified by the House panel for more funding in its markup of the Intelligence Authorization Bill for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The agency's spy service, reduced after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, has been in public disrepute since the 1994 arrest of the spy Aldrich H. Ames. CIA Director George J. Tenet and deputy director for operations Jack Downing have been pressing Congress for more funds to rebuild the directorate and reestablish agency posts in places such as Africa, where almost all the CIA stations were closed down over the past six years.=20 For much of the 1990s, another source said, reducing the DO was an easy way to save money because it was cheaper to have case officers back in Washington, a change that automatically sliced the number of operations and agents run overseas. "They gutted activities," this source said, "and put us in danger of being less than a global service." In seeking more funds for CIA human intelligence, Tenet and Downing have noted that some supporters of terrorism operate in African countries such as Sudan. CIA officials have told Congress that by having case officers operating in certain African countries, there is a better chance to track terrorists and of Chinese and Russian activities there and in other countri= es. The House panel, as part of its plan for "revitalizing" the Directorate of Operations, has recommended small increases in funding to hire additional personnel over coming years for operations that are long-range rather than short-term, sources said. With operations directed at targets such as terrorism and arms proliferation, one veteran CIA official said new personnel requirements call less for recent college graduates and more for older personnel with language qualifications and overseas experience who could be transferred into the agency. Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the intelligence committee and a former CIA clandestine officer, said yesterday the panel saw "the need for concerted focus on signals intelligence, human intelligence, all-source analysis and our covert action capabilities."=20 Only marginal amounts of money were added for hiring new analysts, sources said. The panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Norman D. Dicks (Wash.), said the bill "marginally exceeds the president's budget request" and provides investment "in areas where technological advances or lack of emphasis have weakened our capabilities." Tenet yesterday appeared in closed session before the Senate intelligence panel to discuss the agency's espionage and covert action programs. That committee, which is expected to mark up its version of the authorization bill next week, also has made additional funding for NSA one of its goals, according to sources.=20 =A9 Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:06:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: IP: Keyes: You say you want a revolution? (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 08:19:45 -0500 From: believer@telepath.com To: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: Keyes: You say you want a revolution? - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only.=20 - ----------------------- Source: WorldNetDaily Alan Keyes Exclusive commentary=20 You say you want a revolution? These are dark days for lovers of liberty and the American Republic. Evidence is mounting that our entire political elite has cast its lot with government by the arrogant and unaccountable few. The abandonment of national and local sovereignty is now a habit with leaders of both parties, whether it be the betrayal of American sovereignty to the World Trade Organization, or of state and local sovereignty to a Congress that wants to dictate legal blood alcohol levels to the states. And the role of moral principle in our public life is, shall we say, obscure at the moment.=20 Are we close to the moment when we will need a second "shot heard round the world," and face the obligation that our Founders did of declaring the old way dead and a revolution inevitable?=20 I actually don't think we are very close at all. The main difference between our situation and that of the Americans of the pre-Revolutionary period is that one of the grievances they had was precisely that the process for redress of grievance was shut down. They had tried various means within their colonial legislatures, but many of those bodies had been shut down. Revolution was ultimately justified by the impossibility of seeking justice without it. We can make no such claim today.=20 If we want to make a revolution -- perhaps "restoration" would be the better word -- all we have to do is get up off our behinds. It's the easiest thing in the world to make real political change in America.=20 The only thing that really determines political power in this country is who shows up at the voting booth, the caucuses, and the party precinct meetings. When principled and courageous people have actually worked their hearts out, they have made real progress and achieved real power.=20 In fact, I will remain a Republican, and not encourage conservatives to join in a third-party movement, until we have made full use of the obvious opportunities that the grass roots conservative majority has labored to create within the party. If we do that, we will sweep the corrupt establishment aside and fashion the Republican Party into the national instrument for political renewal that America so desperately needs.=20 Yet, in politics, most conservatives make more excuses than progress, because we are not willing to take risks. We don't have the guts our Founding Fathers had. They risked bullets, while most conservatives today apparently won't even risk the embarrassment of supporting a losing candidate in order to take a stand for principle. This is probably most of the explanation, in fact, for the implosion of resolve in our supposedly revolutionary conservative Congress.=20 And it is certainly the explanation for getting people like Bob Dole as our presidential nominee. Supposedly smart conservative "operators" have been leading grass roots conservatives down the road of calculation and concession, because they have accepted the servile and false view that "the media" and "the establishment" can prevent a free people from acting to correct what ails us.=20 We could turn this country around overnight if half the conservatives who talk a good game would be willing to make one simple commitment -- to select, in each election, the candidate who is in fact best for the job according to principle, and then make a modest effort to support that candidate, regardless of conventional analyses of the chances for success.= =20 We are encouraged by the media and by our political leaders to believe that we are helpless, because they know that a relatively few determined citizens can make a powerful difference. Americans, including conservatives, are increasingly just spectators and passive consumers of politics. We watch, comment, speculate, moan and groan, but are not willing to take action.=20 So the question really becomes whether conservatives themselves remain fit for self-government. Will we continue grumpily to suppress our better hopes, and accept a new order that can satisfy our material passions, but not our souls?=20 We can have all the money and sex and comfort we want, and we can be secure, if we just agree to stay in our comfortable chairs watching our national life on television, and give up our active power to others, letting them shape our destiny instead of the sovereign people who are supposed to shape it. This is the velvet-glove despotism all our leaders are offering now.=20 That mindset is evident even in much of the Republican leadership, as they help lure us into the phony belief that somebody else is going to take care of us. That's how the liberals have led us down the garden path all these years, and now we have big-government "conservatives" taking the same approach.=20 The real aim of our politics must be self-government, and self-government literally cannot be retained by a passive people. We can keep our freedom only by continually claiming it anew, and we can effectively claim it only by undertaking the hard work of actually governing ourselves.=20 Before grumbling about lighting the fires of revolution, we ought to summon the energy at least to get out of our chairs and go humbly to work to preserve the liberty we have inherited.=20 Alan Keyes is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. His program can be heard via Real Audio at http://www.alankeyes.com.=20 =A91998, Western Journalism Center ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:56:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: IP: Saddam's biological arsenal could kill tens of millions (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 06:34:49 -0500 From: believer@telepath.com To: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: Saddam's biological arsenal could kill tens of millions - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only.=20 - ----------------------- Source: Washington Times Saddam's biological arsenal could kill tens of millions By Martin Sieff THE WASHINGTON TIMES Seven years after Iraq was forced to accept international inspections at the end of the Gulf war, President Saddam Hussein appears more confident than ever that his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons will keep him safe. Armed with enough power to kill tens of millions of people, analysts say, it is just a matter of time until he provokes another crisis by trying to disrupt the work of U.N. weapons inspectors. Even before the U.N. Security Council this week renewed its economic sanctions on Iraq for another six months, Saddam was issuing veiled warnings that he might retaliate against the countries that voted in favor. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council and its Ba'ath party leadership warned April 16 that any countries that maintained the economic embargo "will carry the burden of the previous crises as well as the crises to come and for any harm inflicted on our people." Laurie Mylroie, a biographer of the Iraqi leader, said, "Minimally, Saddam seems to be planning another challenge, akin to the two that have already occurred" in October 1997 and January 1998. "Saddam has benefited for provoking each of the past two crises, while he has suffered no penalty. Why shouldn't he provoke a third?" Saddam's confidence, experts said, comes from two sources: his increasingly accurate reading of U.S. and Western responses to his actions and his apparent belief that he can inflict devastating casualties on those who oppose him. "The Clinton administration's biggest problem in dealing with Saddam has been that it makes threats to inflict serious damage upon him and then doesn't follow through on them," said Dov S. Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and and International Studies, former deputy undersecretary of defense in the Reagan administration. "Saddam's calculations are different from those of most of us," said Miss Mylroie, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. "He has a rare understanding of how to use force and violence in political affairs. Thus, he surprises. And he sees weakness in Washington." Iraq has enough deadly biological agents to kill every human being on earth, according to a Feb. 4 report by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government. Baghdad also has the capability to inflict devastating attacks of incurable anthrax and other diseases on U.S. military personnel in the Gulf region, according to U.S. military intelligence assessments. On March 3, the Pentagon announced an accelerated anthrax vaccination program for U.S. military personnel serving in the Gulf. At a press conference, Lt. Gen. Ronald Blancke, the Army surgeon general, said nothing could be done for the victims of an anthrax attack once they showed symptoms. Officials of the U.N. Special Commission (Unscom), which is charged with finding and destroying Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, say Iraq bought 39 tons of growth medium, the basic compound needed for biological agents, before 1990. Each ton can yield 10 tons of biological agent. Seventeen of these 39 tons --enough to kill 50 million to 60 million people - -- are still unaccounted for, Rolf Ekeus, then Unscom chief, told a meeting at the Carnegie Institute on Ethics and Social Responsibility in 1996. Anthrax, a virus that causes hemorrhaging in the lungs and is almost invariably fatal to human and animal life, has never been used in war. Some experts believe Iraq has the devastating option of unleashing deadly plague viruses covertly on the U.S. civilian population while retaining a plausible deniability that it had done so. It is ironic that U.S. policy-makers face this dilemma only seven years after one of the most low-casualty and successful military campaigns in history, the 1991 Gulf war. But a series of miscalculations by both the Bush and Clinton administrations allowed Saddam's regime to survive after the war. "There is now pretty much of a consensus that we should have destroyed the Republican Guard [Saddam's elite units] in the Gulf war," said Mr. Zakheim. Both the Bush and Clinton administrations also allowed Iraq to retain a major biological weapons potential and the infrastructure to rapidly expand it because they didn't realize how much was there in the first place, said Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "In retrospect, it would appear that we badly underestimated the progress Iraq had made on these programs," Mr. Clawson said. The full extent of the Iraqi program was revealed in August 1995 when Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam's son-in-law, defected to Jordan with his family, bringing enormous quantities of top-secret documents with him. That information, later verified by Unscom investigators, shocked U.N. arms inspectors and U.S. government experts. They revealed that by the time of the Gulf war, the Iraqi biological and chemical weapons production programs were far more advanced than U.S. policy-makers had dreamed possible. Gen. Kamel's papers, and revelations by other Iraqi defectors, also showed that the month-long U.S.-led air bombardment of Iraq at the beginning of the Gulf war had not destroyed a single SCUD missile, and that Iraq still had at least 45 of them. Neither Bush nor Clinton policy-makers appear to have understood the ease with which biological weapons can be developed. "Any country that can make pesticides can make weapons of mass destruction," said military analyst John Hillen of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Clawson agreed, saying, "Iraq's biological and chemical programs can be restarted relatively quickly. Much of the switchover required in conventional factories and laboratories to prepare for work on them can be done very, very quickly," he said. Copyright =A9 1998 News World Communications, Inc. ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:17:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: IP: Bill Gates Gives To Population Control Fund (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:48:03 -0700 From: wtberry@sprintmail.com To: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Bill Gates Gives To Population Control Fund http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/theworld/gateshel.htm Bill Gates Gives To Population Control Fund NEW YORK -- The pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced on Wednesday that Microsoft Co. chairman Bill Gates, the wealthiest man in the United States, donated $1.7 million to the fund which seeks to "limit population growth" in poor nations through abortion. The William H. Gates Foundation, founded by the technology tycoon and his wife, gave the money to cover a three-year grant for population programs, including a nation-to-nation technology exchange, and for a five-year review of the pro-abortion 1994 Cairo population conference. The Gates foundation has been active in the population and reproductive science fields, awarding previous grants for research oncontraceptives and last year giving Johns Hopkins University money to use technologyto address the so-called over- population problem. Gates, who has a reported net worth of $40 billion, joins thelist of big-name donors to the UN which includes media tycoon Ted Turner whogave the organization a $1 billion, five-year grant last October for use in several projects. The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List http://www.prolife.org/ultimate It is time to send Bill Gates some E-Mail and let him know what we think of his baby killing. Send E-Mail to Killer Bill at: http://www.asia.microsoft.com/BillGates/email.htm ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 98 13:58:27 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: URGENT! WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (please fwd) (fwd) On May 2, Jo wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] I am passing this on with one comment from me: I would suggest only adults call, I don't think my 14 yr old son's voice will be given much credibility, and could possibly damage our reputations! If I can call (ugh) Durbin and Mosely-Braun with NO HOPE for affirmation, I would also beg that you call your senators. Our literal future is at stake here! Jo <>< >American Policy Center >http://www.americanpolicy.org >================================================== >URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT > SHOWDOWN TIME ON S.1186 > VOTE IS SET FOR TUESDAY, MAY 5TH > > Remember, S.1186 (the Workforce Investment >Partnership Act) is the final piece to the evil >triangle of education restructuring (with Goals 2000 >and School-To-Work). Powerful forces including the >White House, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the >National Governor's Association, are pushing hard >for passage. > >BUT WITH A MASSIVE SHOW OF FORCE NOW - WE CAN STOP >THIS BILL! > > ACTION TO TAKE > > > >1. JAM TRENT LOTT'S PHONES - 202-224-3135 > > Call Senate Majority Leader Lott. Don't argue > > - just tell his staff you oppose S.1186 and > > urge him not to bring it to a vote. Have every > > member of your family call - separately. The > > number of calls opposing the bill count here. > > > >2. JAM YOUR SENATOR'S PHONES > > Call Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121 > > (toll free numbers have been disconnected) > > Call both of your state's U.S. Senators. Tell > > them to vote no on S.1186. Keep calling. Again > > numbers count. A huge number of calls from our > > side will get reported to Senate leadership - > > and could stop the vote. Remember, our > > opponents are calling too. > > > >3. Pass this alert on to as many friends, > > neighbors and family members as possible. Urge > > them to call. Their children and grandchildren > > will be affected too. > > > > OUR BATTLE HAS SUCCEEDED SO FAR - KEEP IT UP. > > > >THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP THIS ASSAULT ON OUR >SCHOOLS > > > > SHUT DOWN THE CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD > > > > CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL AND CALL AGAIN > > > >================================================== >Powered by Webforums >Copyright 1998 Waveshift Inc. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The best cure for an empty day or a longing heart is to find people who need you. Look, the world is full of them. Anonymous ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 May 98 15:56:18 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Heads Up #83 (fwd) On May 03, Doug Fiedor wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Heads Up A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia May 3, 1998 #83 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Previous Editions at: http://www.jollytax.org/reports/headsup/list-hu.htm and http://mmc.cns.net/headsup.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------ CLINTON SOLD OUR SECURITY Prestidigitation, it's called. That's the crafty art of creating a diversion, such as to divert attention during a "magic" trick. We're seeing another form now, in Washington and the media, orchestrated primarily by Hillary's disinformation cabal in the White House. The diversion is sex, as in Jones, Wiley, Lewinsky, etc., etc. These stories are continued because, in the grand scheme of things, they are nearly inconsequential. Whereas, the misdeeds not being discussed while we talk of the sexual peccadilloes of the philander-in-chief could have a very costly and long-term affect on the people of the United States. Also, the sex scandals will not be impeachable offenses, whereas what they are diverting attention from most certainly are. Just a few months ago, the hot story was how communist China was able to launder money into the Clinton & Gore and DNC campaign coffers. When one reads the transcripts of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/), or the House Government Reform Committee (http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings.htm), it quickly becomes evident how extensive that illegal money laundering was. Even though the whole of that story is not complete (i.e. conclusively proven), there is more than enough information available to indict dozens of people involved in the Clinton & Gore Campaign Committee and the DNC conspiracy. Yet, interestingly enough, that is one of the very few impeachable acts that does not have a special prosecutor investigating. Instead, the Reno Justice Department is supposedly looking into it. Somewhat. The actual problem is much more important than just the few million dollars the communist Chinese "contributed" to Clinton and others for considerations. The true problem goes to the security of the people of the United States. The subject being diverted is the considerations the Red Chinese received for that money -- and those considerations were considerable. As Timothy W. Maier reported in the May 4 issue of Insight magazine: "Two U.S. firms are accused of illegally helping the Chinese develop ICBMs that can hit the United States." A Pentagon report said Hughes Electronics and Loral Space and Communications caused "national security harm" by selling sophisticated electronic technology to China. Both companies were investigated, of course. But just as charges were ready to be filed, Clinton approved the sale of similar equipment to China by Loral. Interestingly enough, Loral's CEO, Bernard Schwartz, just happens to be the largest personal contributor to the DNC last year. Reports vary, but it seems that he has contributed between two and three million dollars over the past few years. In other words, Clinton & Gore and the DNC were collecting from both the domestic high-tech equipment sellers and the foreign high-tech equipment purchasers. That's a rather convenient arrangement. The problem is that this is top-secret military equipment that was sold to the communists. We taxpaying Americans cannot see this equipment, but the communists in China now own some of it. Apparently, the Chinese also had a ace in the hole at Loral. A Corporate Vice President, Dr. Wah Lim, is a foreign national from China. In itself, that wouldn't be a big deal. Lim did part of his studies here, and it's only natural for him to wish to work in his chosen field of electronics. But, top secret military electronics? Wah Lim's father, by the way, just happens to be a high ranking government banker in China. That could be very handy for Loral, who wishes to sell expensive equipment there. But that certainly does not speak well for those in the federal government charged with protecting our high-tech military secrets. They issued Lim a top secret clearance. With that kind of leak, the Chinese could be using the newest and best of our electronic equipment even before our military has a chance to try it. We were told by a well placed source in the industry that, "Dr. Lim was considered enough of a security risk when he was an employee of Northrop Corporation that he was denied a clearance to work on the B-2 bomber. Because that risk assessment has not changed significantly since then, it seems that it is not proper for Dr. Lim to be handling other of our country's top military data." Furthermore, "Dr. Lim was known to improperly access military data when he worked as a lower level employee of Loral Corporation, even entering another employee's secured safe to remove secret documents without that employee's knowledge or approval." As it turned out, even though there was plenty of work, the American employee reporting that serious breach of security at Loral was laid off shortly thereafter. Dr. Lim stayed. The sorry fact is that, by continually replaying the soap-opera of Clinton sex scandals, the national media totally missed an illegal transfer of technology that could someday get thousands of American citizens blown right off the face of the earth. But, Clinton needed the money to get elected, so apparently the China connection is not a newsworthy story for the liberal media. TIME FOR CLINTON TO PAY THE PIPER Last week it was Rep. Dan Burton, Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, telling the editorial board of The Indianapolis Star: "If I could prove 10 percent of what I believe happened, he'd [Clinton] be gone. This guy's a scumbag. That's why I'm after him." This week, the whole Republican leadership of the United States House of Representatives picked up the gauntlet. They've apparently thrown the implied threats of secret police investigations and potential blackmail by Hillary's disinformation cabal to the wind and decided to do the right thing. Showing a surprising amount of intestinal fortitude for an election year, they are gearing up to expose the ongoing corruption in the Clinton, Clinton & Gore team and the DNC for all of America to see. Then, they plan to take appropriate action. Of course, a couple of them have already had a glimpse at some of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's evidence, and the House has reams of information concerning money laundering by and for the Clinton campaign committee and the DNC. The millions of dollars in illegal campaign funds came, of course, from both American labor unions and communist China. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lead off the accusations with comments to the GOPAC political action group early in the week (http://www.gopac.com/library/newt98.htm). Therein, Gingrich described Kenneth Starr as an "officer of the Department of Justice" and said criticism of the independent counsel has gone overboard: "The fact is that if he [Clinton] wants to fire Ken Starr, he can do it in the morning. And if he doesn't want to fire Ken Starr, he should tell his staff to shut up because there is something profoundly demeaning and destructive to have the White House systematically undermine an officer of the Department of Justice. And when I watch these paid hacks on television, to be quite honest, I am sickened by how unpatriotically they undermine the Constitution of the United States on behalf of their client." Right on! Finally Newt's taking a stand. Burton was right. The term "scumbag" fits them nicely. Newt continues: "What you have lived through for two and a half long years, is the most systematic, deliberate, obstruction of justice cover up in an effort to avoid the truth we have ever seen in American history. And the time has come to say to the Democrats and to say to the President quit undermining the law in the United States. Turn over the evidence, agree to the witnesses, have the hearings. The American people have the right to know the truth." Gingrich also commented on the controversy over whether Secret Service agents should act like police officers and testify against the president: "I don't get it," Newt said. "This is not some 'shall we gossip about the president.' . . . This is about the rule of law. This is about the heart of America. No person in America is above the rule of law." Then, in a speech before the Atlanta Rotary Club, Gingrich continued the thought: "There is no question there are very, very serious allegations, starting with $700,000 being paid to Hubbell, who is a convicted felon. I think any honest American can conclude [that giving] $700,000 to a convicted felon is hush money. That is a very, very serious violation." Later in the week, The Speaker took to the House floor and, in a similar speech, accused the Democrats who voted against immunity for four witnesses in the campaign-finance investigation as obstructing justice. He then demanded another vote. "When the people breaking the law are foreign nationals trying to corrupt the United States by bringing in foreign money -- in some cases in a deliberate effort in collusion with billionaires in Asia -- we have every reason as a national security matter to protect our political system," Newt told the House. "For some reason, Democrats voted 19-0 to cover up this testimony. That means they voted 19-0 to block it from getting to the American people and to prevent the Congress from being informed." "If [President Clinton] doesn't want to fire Ken Starr, he should tell his staff to shut up," Gingrich continued. "I am sickened by how unpatriotically they undermine the Constitution of the United States." Newt said there were two principles "which I am prepared to live and die on. The first is that the American people have the right to know about basic facts. And the second is that we are a nation under the rule of law and no person, including the president, is above the law. . . . I will never again, as long as I am speaker, make a speech without commenting on this topic." And then, in typical Newt Gingrich style, came a pointed history lesson: "Howard Baker understood that Richard Nixon could not be allowed to take the entire Republican Party and the Constitution down in flames and that his job as a United States senator was to get at the truth, and Howard Baker again and again and again cooperated with the Democrat Chairman Sam Ervin," Gingrich said. He added that Democrats "ought to be ashamed" at their actions and "ought to be helping us get at the truth rather than finding some flimsy excuse to avoid voting for immunity." Look for the Republicans to be out in force talking about this corruption. Because maybe, just maybe, we are about to see some action. Starr cleared most of his calendar, possibly for a year or more, and is actively shuttling between the grand juries in Little Rock and Washington. Better yet, he's got a big smile on his face lately. Last week, after questioning Hillary again, Starr was thanked, congratulated and applauded at the Little Rock airport. We think it's time he got a little recognition. Starr deserves retribution too. As two House committees investigate the campaign corruption of the Clinton, Clinton & Gore conspiracy, and Starr increases pressure by threatening indictments on assorted other topics, middle America sits back and watches history in the making. Not yet admitted by a definitely biased national media is the fact that this may be the first time in our nation's history that the whole of the administration is dismissed (and maybe convicted) simultaneously. And that is as it should be. They are all party to the corrupt practices and obstruction conspiracies together, and they should all fall together. Nail Clinton, Clinton & Gore at the same time. That done, we would be pleased to present President Newt with a copy of his speeches on the Federalist Papers and the Original Intent of the authors of our Constitution -- just as a reminder. THE UN USURPS OUR FREEDOM As we reported earlier, Bill Clinton, encouraged by his power hungry Marxist wife, wants much more than to be just a world leader. Clinton wants to be "the" world leader. Nearly everything they do nowadays (besides ducking impeachment), is in preparation for that goal. For instance, Hillary's choice for Secretary of State, Madeline Albright was out attacking UN critics recently. We should note here that in her previous position as a professor, Albright was called by those who knew her on campus as "Professor Halfbright." Some of her recent actions are starting to make a lot of people wonder if there might have been a reason for that nickname. Lately, the State Department has allowed an alarming amount of United Nations equipment to be stored in the United States. UN military equipment has been spotted stockpiled in various locations around our country. Why? There's also the problem of all those UN Heritage Sites, biosphere reserves and now wilderness zones. Does anyone actually believe that a UN bureaucrat from some little third world country would better care for our national treasures than we would? Worst yet, the UN recently agreed to offer members of some environmental extremist groups diplomatic passports so they will be immune from the law when operating within the United States. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was given permission to wander around the U.S. as he pleases. He was in Hollywood recently, encouraging some left-leaning celebrities to lend a hand with the dissemination of UN propaganda. As starters, Annan wants that $1.2-billion in back "dues" he says we owe. The Clinton administration is, of course, applying pressure on Congress to pay at least part of that amount. As part of a world governance program, over 72 nations recently signed agreements to provide the UN a full sized military force. The administration approves of this action and has secretly contributed millions of taxpayer dollars to help get a UN army started. The State Department will not release exactly how much money we contributed, but it was in the hundreds of millions. Then, of course, there's the matter of gun control. For the first time in history, the United States has agreed to the UN plan of gun control. And, as is obvious at home, Clinton has continuously been doing his best to disarm the American people. Now comes the UN Court system. Next June, the United Nations is meeting in Rome to draft a treaty which would establish an International Criminal Court (ICC). Such a court could subject American citizens to the jurisdiction of foreign judges, who would have zero respect for our Constitution. As can be expected, the Clinton Administration supports the ICC. So does the U.S. Senate, which voted 55 to 45 to encourage the establishment of an ICC within the UN system. Even the American Bar Association has endorsed the concept of the ICC. But that's no real surprise, since the ABA characteristically does nothing to defend our Constitution anyway. The ICC would be a plaything for them. A new court system would allow lawyers to make up the rules as they go along. However, for the unsuspecting American citizen, such an international criminal court would be a disaster. One important difference is that there will be no right for the accused to confront witnesses, as stipulated in our Sixth Amendment. The UN court will adopt a provision known as Rule 75, which allows witnesses to remain anonymous, even to defendants and their lawyers. And, as in American administrative law courts, a defendant will be classed as guilty until proven innocent. The United States does not have a very good track record in these world courts, which makes it very difficult to understand how any person respecting our Rule of Law could agree to such wickedness. For example, we lost a series of key cases before the international agency governing commerce and tariffs. Really, these and dozens of other actions by the Clinton Administration point to only one thing: Clinton is systematically weakening the United States so it will be easier to control when he is secretary-general of the United Nations. Truly, to protect our American way of life, we must get the UN out of the United States and the United States out of the UN. UNENFORCED RIGHTS We learned a little more of how the law applies to the controlling elite this week. It seems that if someone is involved in a crime and explains it to their spouse, they may then claim 'marital privilege' when questioned about that crime and so will not need to answer questions about it for a grand jury. Thank Hillary for teaching us that one. Apparently she got away with it. Meanwhile, let's look at laws that may be a little more applicable to our lives. There is actually a federal law barring "conspiracy against rights" (18 USC 241). "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or "If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured - "They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death." So, if anyone conspires "to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person . . . in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, . . . they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both." We could easily read a lot into that, but let's just stick with the exact words of the Bill of Rights. In the First Amendment, we find that the free exercise of religion is suddenly being threatened. So too are our rights of free speech and assembly. And the Fourth Amendment has been totally trashed lately. The fact is that nine out of the first ten amendments have been pretty well "interpreted" to a point where they favor the expediency of government agents rather than the American people. The "Conspiracy against Rights" law, therefore, must not be one that is often enforced. So, let's try another. There is also a "deprivation of rights under color of law" law (18 USC 242), which applies better to government agencies: "Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both . . ." Here again, the law is violated regularly. Any compilation of specific information on citizens would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment. So too would warrantless searches (inspections) by regulatory agencies. For instance, nearly everything the IRS does is a violation of the Constitution. The sad fact is, most recent laws, rules and regulations violate the Constitutional rights of the people in some way. Possibly though, we are reading the above laws wrong and the words do not mean exactly what they say. Perhaps there could be some hidden clause in the Rule of Law somewhere that states that laws like the two above apply only to the protected ones: those elected to office, their friends and the bureaucrats. It must be that. Else, the whole of government is negligent in the enforcement of its own law. -- End -- [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #124 *************************